Chapter 100 Combat Policy on the Shandong Battlefield

(May 22, 1947) Chen Su, Tan Ju, Zhang Rao, Deng Li[1], and sued Liu Deng[2]: 哿 [3] Electric note.The annihilation of the 74th Division cost a lot, but it is of great significance. It proves that as long as you don't rush and don't divide your troops, you can use various annihilation methods to break the enemy's attack and win a decisive victory in the current area.But fighting in the present area is most beneficial to us and most detrimental to the enemy.Now all battlefields in the country except Shandong have taken offensives, but the significance of all these offensives is to help Shandong, the main battlefield, break the enemy's attack.The role of the ever-expanding people's struggle in Chiang Kai-shek's area is also the same.Liu Deng's attack next month has the same effect.Shandong's combat method is to concentrate all the main force in the area north of the line of Jinan, Linyi, and Haizhou, and prepare to use six to seven months (from May), with 60,000 to 70,000 casualties, to wipe out the enemies on the line one by one.The day when this line is broken is the time of overall victory, and all operations will be relatively smooth after that.The next course of action is twofold: (1) After a few days of rest, you will implement your power supply method, attack Weixian with three columns [4], and send reinforcements with six columns (both the sixth and seventh columns should stay in the north and not disperse. ). (2) Postpone the plan to attack Weiwei again (it has already been postponed once, and it was quite correct to fight the 74th Division), and consider attacking the Fifth Army first.The army is currently stationed in Laiwu and Yanzhuang. It is relatively isolated, but I don’t know how strong its fortifications are? How do you know how to fight against this army? Our army restrained the 11th Division and other departments so that they cannot be reinforced. How are you sure? Long-term consideration, analysis of interests and telegrams.If we can wipe out the Fifth Army (or one or two divisions of the army) and several other units first, and then attack Chang[5] and Wei, it will be of great benefit.Because when we attack Chang and Wei, the enemy will surely reinforce us (this is inevitable). The sooner the time comes, the bigger the reinforcements will be, and the more difficult it will be for our army to fight for reinforcements; The smaller the aid to the enemy, the easier it is for our army to fight aid.Therefore, fighting Wei should be regarded as an important means to gain the initiative of our army and make the enemy passive, and try not to use it prematurely.Only when there is absolutely no chance of fighting from the front, the step of attacking Wei is taken.How, hope to reply.

Military Commission Chen Yang Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Chen Su and Tan Ju refer to Chen Yi, Su Yu, Tan Zhenlin, and Chen Shiju, who were respectively the commander, political commissar, deputy commander, deputy political commissar and chief of staff of the East China Field Army at that time.Zhang Rao and Deng Li, referring to Zhang Yunyi, Rao Shushi, Deng Zihui, and Li Yu, were respectively the deputy commander, political commissar, deputy secretary of the East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and deputy political commissar of the East China Military Region at that time.

[2] Liu Deng, referring to Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, who were the commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army at that time. [3] 哿, that is, twenty days. [4] Weixian, now Hanting District, Weifang City. [5] Chang, refers to Shandong Changle.